I just love pikes in Total War Attila

boosty.to/mrga...

[@logankellogg1454]

Lol the last 7 dudes said hold up this ain't it 😂😂

[@IsendielBobLea]

Hahahahhahah

[@theannoyingreplier]

Honestly I’d jus turn around and tell my commander yea they all killed themselves jus runnin full speed into their pikes tf we do now?

[@omarel-demerdash4848]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@crowbar12121]

You gotta give them props though for sticking around a whole 7 seconds after the pike lysol killed 99.9% of germs

[@williamslater-vf5ym]

A few of them still tried. Got stabbed.

[@bigmoose7]

I’m guessing the United tribes of stupid town didn’t win this one

[@Bogomil1066]

Wym charging pikes head on is the only way to defeat them

[@fukiduki9629]

Can't go around them. Against the rules. Honour bound

[@deathfire5473]

​@@Bogomil1066 you have tho throw Something on them tho kill them

[@Shystyman]

Idk why but this is one of the funniest comments I ever read 😂😂😂

[@squidkill9077]

​@@Bogomil1066why can't they use bow or other projectile weapon?

[@chocho6766]

"Do you see those long pointy stick? " "Just charge through them !"

[@tylerredforge5563]

They are barbarians after all

[@flakcannonhans6170]

“SIR YES SIR, RIGHT AWAY SIR!”

[@arthurthemacarthur4334]

Love how *one barbarian yelled "DEATH" right before being impaled with most of his friends.

[@FusionCoreHoarder]

Dude is a hardcore LOTR fan

[@qzamap3870]

he had a premonition

[@mar_ciano6478]

The spirit of the West ☠️

[@alexanderkarayann]

AI is becoming self aware apparently

[@dasiyzootyrer3300]

Valhalla!!!

[@YoCatsGoMeow]

When your whole army got a combined braincell of 7

[@Nikawlos]

They are good cannonfodder atleast

[@Nikawlos]

The Red Army would hire them all!

[@LOL-zu1zr]

@@NikawlosI love how the popular image of Soviet army is iterally “the asiatic horde” Bruh the red army’s later victories were from change of infantry tactics.

[@Nikawlos]

​@@LOL-zu1zrdamn late response but are you that dense to think i wasnt joking?

[@dacowfamilyofficial7550]

shut up

[@bvbxiong5791]

those are some magical pikes. everyone managed to get cut deep enough to die, yet not a single enemy was speared on a pike.

[@oscar12ty]

Bro the game is like 9 years old, and its a game

[@senseishu937]

@@oscar12ty 9 years ago was only 2014. That's not too far back. Plenty of amazing games were made back then, don't underestimate them. Plus, it's a game. So what? It can't be plausible?

[@oscar12ty]

@@senseishu937 plenty of good gamse, but there were no physics engines capable of waht you want from this game. at that scale it still is not possible in 2023

[@senseishu937]

@@oscar12ty bro... simulating pikes semi realistically is not hard at all. The older total war games simulated them well. The older total war games, like medieval 2. Infantry didn't just run and flop as soon as they hit pikemen, they died and slowed down and it becomes a slog. That games is half a decade older than atilla. You seem to underestimate the technology we've got nowadays and back then.

[@oscar12ty]

@@senseishu937 he is asking for multiple units to get impaled. I didnt even mention the AI in the game, so why are you talking about it?

[@sintho3107]

Reminds me of the one elve in LotR The two Towers in the Battle of Helms Deep who just runs into the Uruk pikes. Hundreds of years of training to die like this 💀

[@SgtCroaker]

To be fair that's what heavy cavalry does if they can't maneuver on the flanks. With their momentum and the sun glaring into the eyes if the Urak-hai. It was a solid charge.

[@roberturlaub8526]

​@@SgtCroaker im quite sure he means the elves after gimlis heroic jump. The men of rohan dont get that old

[@SimonMoreal]

@@SgtCroaker he's referring to the scene after the wall got blown up and Aragon lead the elves into a charge.

[@95onimusha]

The elves needed to die because they were not there in the book

[@sintho3107]

​@@95onimushahaha yeah Erkenbrand would've known better ^^

[@DontJudgM3Monky]

Still waiting for the day they make it to where they actually get stuck on the pike from thrusting themselves into them.

[@DeezUp4Da3zz]

Definitely be cool to see but i wouldnt want it to be implemented

[@ashtonhaggitt216]

There is enough collision issues as it is v

[@irgendeinname9256]

You can wait forever, kill animations only got less since Attila

[@DontJudgM3Monky]

@@irgendeinname9256 true. Tis a sad thing to admit but it will be missed.

[@alexmorris5208]

mk1212 bran mod adds it

[@ouch2040]

Nothing is more fun than watching an entire army disintegrate on your pikewall

[@MrGamerDadChannel]

True

[@AusNAVI]

This is the ancient equivalent of charging a machine gun

[@bernard3303]

Good analogy, almost no one charged a pike formation, or even a spear formation for that matter. even in heavy armor the chances of surviving in such an attack is slim to none. the way to beat pike formations is to shoot at them from afar, throw javelins at them with you infantry and break in the parts that are too thin after harassment. If there is no such opening the infantry try to hold them in place and move backwards as the formation marches slowly towards them, and the flanking forces have to do the rest.

[@BartekSt90]

@@bernard3303 Polish winged hussarrs charged pikes with success. You can say how? impossible? But hussars lances were longer than pikes, and the horses used by winged hussars were more expenisve than whole villages.

[@VanillaGorilla1986-y1q]

What is beneath your feet? Sacred ground, watered with the tears of blood

[@pyrhusofeprius]

Pikes didn’t go out of style till like the end of the 1600s lol

[@Midala87]

Then they got outmatched by longer pikes that go pew pew.

[@kube410]

they did kinda fall out of style they just came back around the late 15th century

[@roycebunce9373]

Actually they made a small comeback during the American Civil War. Granted, if I were a Confederate soldier and I was ordered to charge a formation of riflemen with a pointy stick, I'd be catching some desertion charges

[@landsknechtdrummer9646]

Копья так то использовались даже в 1 мировой кавалерией. А булавы пехотой)

[@ConstantineJoseph]

Actually Pikes we’re out of style by the early medieval period. Most factions were using the shield wall method of combat with Germanic spatha and shield, sometimes with an axe or mace. This continued until the end of the early medieval period where the early prototype knights began to win one too many battles and that is where long lances and spears were reintroduced particularly starting with the Scottish under William Wallace where they would use the schiltrons to defeat English Cavalry at Stirling Bridge.

[@void4030]

This is how Rome could’ve been saved.

[@Bagixxx1]

You're right, they just don't like pike's

[@ConstantineJoseph]

Rome defeated the famed long Macedonian pikes at Cynocephalae in the early 2nd century BC using the mobile Roman maniples and triplex acies. They easily bested pikes and would never consider them until the 3rd and 4th century where the legions began to use lances like a mini pike formation to deter cavalry

[@stonem0013]

​@@ConstantineJosephwouldn't say 'easily' - those were still closely fought battles. The Pike was retired too early imo, and would've been great for the center of Roman lines, using legionaries on the flanks

[@void4030]

@@ConstantineJoseph r/whooosh

[@ConstantineJoseph]

@@stonem0013 Actually the Roman legion is well capable of taking on long pikes. With missiles they carry, like the pila, javelin and later on darts, missile fire would tear away at the pikes. The high mobility of the legions meant that they will always outflank and out maneuver slow moving phalangites. The so called "pike" would again by used by the late Roman military legions who were armed with lances or 2 to 3m heavy spears in their Comitatensis heavy legionary cohorts. The Byzantines also were using these formations well into the 6th century under Justinian. Sidearms would be spathas, axes, maces, clubs etc.... However they would not use the phalanx at the hip level for thrusting. Instead it is held at shoulder level to jab at Germanic heavy cavalry or Hunnic heavy cavalry. Still when up in melee combat, the lances would lodge into enemies, piercing them. Resulting in relinquishing the lances, to form a shield wall with spathas and other smaller close in weaponry. The late Roman and Byzantine did use a medium phalanx but was hybridized with the Roman shield wall system and close in melee, shield wall style of combat tactic

[@UmitSeyhan75]

Every pike spammer is gangsta, until horse archers show up.

[@gloatingflame3535]

Мы берём вверх

[@kingivar702]

Surviving homies be like okay back up what tf just happened?!? That must've an awkward moment

[@shacolatekisses7520]

This definition of easiest difficulty settings and probably a damage to spears mod

[@98765zach]

They give braced pikes a “reflect charge” stat that basically takes an enemy unit’s charge bonus and slaps it against them, mainly to make braced spears (or pikes) a bad option to charge into, but it can also lead to this here where an enemy unit is very weak defensively but has a high charge bonus, meaning that charging onto an enemy pike formation essentially has them shoot themselves in the face

[@joshwuzhere1]

Lmfaoaoaoao

[@speedracer1004]

The way the men hit the pikes is just like slicing through butter with a hot knife. Looks like total war out did themselves after Medieval 2 pikes. But arguably it's just about one of the most unrealistic things I've ever seen. But it's more satisfying then corpses skewered on pikes like kabobs.

[@dakedakinson64]

Medieval 2 pikes are awesome when secundary wepons is removed and damage is reduced like in every single mod.

[@Dfathurr]

I played Ostrogoth and upgrade most my pike to the elite ones. It was very helpful to destroy Huns. Atilla's stack was literally ransacked for next three appearances and i manage to destroy Hunnic entirety before 445

[@Gilgamesh54]

VERY realistic 😅

[@TjayK2]

Some of them genuinely died to the equivalent of finger pricks

[@unai_asecas9070]

They had 1 unit in shogun 2 that effectively worked like a pike, Oda long yari. Not only did CA not even bother copy-pasting the code from one game to another but 10 years later they still make games with broken pike mechanics. Something they got right years ago. Mobile app level developers.

[@someone1949]

In shogun 2 sometimes the yari wall soldiers don't even thrust their yaris if there is lag on the game, thats a fragile system, i dont get where the hype for shogun 2 is about tho tbh, barely any faction unit diversity, multiplayer is dog, combat ends faster than warhammer games, idk man

[@saitamleonidas]

While I agree with what you say I really don't think Oda Long Yari Ashigaru are nowhere near a good example of how to make a good pike unit

[@algotrobertsson8721]

​@@someone1949 so they should improve the system with next game instead throwing out it completely

[@jacksteele3028]

@@someone1949 weebs. But I love fall of the samurai because I can take a bunch of ironclads around the island nuking everything within bombardment distance. There’s also an incredible amount of building options which really lets you cultivate your economy and defenses. The railroad system and foreign intervention policies were welcome additions as well. Edit: seems criminal they haven’t explored that time period in a while as the troop movement and army set up in TW caters better to it than ancient campaigns.

[@xahmadx6442]

​@@someone1949 what do you mean by "unit diversity"

[@βιτψηασσνιγγα]

Pikes get a bonus where the charge bonus of the attacking unit gets deflected back at them. This mechanic is normally used for cavs since they have high charge and charching horses directly into pointy sticks is a bad idea. But when you have a infantry unit with a high charge bonus you get.....this

[@hermitthelegend1188]

Huns be like: You think you are a strong boy MY HORSE ARHERS MORE STRONGER

[@DS-on3tb]

Theyd just chop the tips off the spears with those big ass axes lol

[@1tuttyfruti]

Provided of course the spearmen would stay still so they could use their axes to cut the spear. either way the cenario showed in the video is just as unlikely (why would anyone charge face first into a pointy object??)

[@Jurisenn]

​@@1tuttyfruticause its total war

[@1tuttyfruti]

@@Jurisenn Of course, that is why I commented that. Im very aware how units behave in total war. Have so many fond memories of defending a siege because 2 units of hoplites blocked entire armies in the gates.

[@Miam_miam_la_gauffre]

​@@1tuttyfruti I'd say in the real world, breaking spear or grabbing them wasn't a far fetched idea. Manoeuvring a 4m long spear is quite hard to do... That being said, I also doubt soldier where rushing head first into the pike, roman for instance used their higher mobility to surround and disorganized the phalanx

[@zippyparakeet1074]

​@@Miam_miam_la_gauffreit's not that easy to break a spear lmao it's a very thick shaft and it's hard to hit because the wielder won't just stay still.

[@tonyjim8053]

This just proves a total war renascence would be cool pike and musket late mediaeval to early Georgen

[@stuffandthings834]

"Behold, the mighty Wall of Sticks!"

[@zavierong888]

Hell nah bro single-handedly impaled hundreds of soldiers and called it a "civilized response" 💀

[@Zayn_guts]

Bros really thought walking straight into pikes was good idea ☠️

[@thewhiteboy3212]

lmao that last dude watched all his homies die and ran in after them completely alone

[@MrGamerDadChannel]

They were probably under influence

[@michaelpettersson4919]

The correct counter to pikemen is either pikemen of your own or ranged weapons. Cavalry of the era adopted heavy pistols of this reason. Ride close and fire the pistols, thrn retreat to reload. Cannons are also excellent breakers of pike formations.

[@TrollDragomir]

Funny enough a two handed axe was a weapon dedicated partly to breaking through the enemy line specifically because it was suited to hooking the spearshafts and keeping them at bay (pushing aside with the butt end as well) as you close in. Halberds in 16th Century served a very similar purpose

[@grassynaga9092]

This is why Horses won’t charge pike lines btw. They stop just short and mill infront of it. They have something called “self preservation”

[@spacingalex]

Put them on a box formation and archers in the middle. Good luck going in

[@kperandos]

It’s like the movie version of battles involving pikes. Just run up to the formation and impale yourselves into it.

[@deshimuhajirmemes5710]

*Total War Rome 2: you get best cinematic experience, I love cavalry and pikes too*

[@user-ny1sj4bc1y]

Мы берём верх! 😊

[@xjackrs15x]

First rule of fighting pikes, dont charge headfirst into a wall of pikes.

[@matteotani1360]

this is why no one would never charge a wall of pikes

[@nwilt7114]

Must have had giant magnets on the end of those pikes.

[@lozzar1069]

The one guy who was in front with a shield took it the hardest

[@fuckhandles1233]

problem is there's way too many ranged units in Attila for your pike line to stay alive

[@Elsneakakaze]

This guy has actually played! But 1 or two pikemen can be clutch if you shield them with a good sbield unit

[@fuckhandles1233]

@@Elsneakakaze Also depending on who you're playing as, for example for the ERE, your only pikes are going to be golden tier 3 units that AI will prioritize on targetting over your silver tier 2 shield units, which makes it even harder to keep them alive. The can be incredibly useful in sieges though

[@mr_george7761]

I played as Sparta, so my armies had like 8 spartan hoplites, general's hoplites, 3 spartan pikes, 3 slinger heliots and two tarentin cavs. I had slingers in front, then back tham fast behind line of hoplites and in this line of hoplites in falanga, I had the three, realy thin, units of pikes. I could get like 400+ kills with each pike unit. And I used slingers and cav to go around enemy flanks. Slingers to shoot to the backs and sides of the enemy infantry engaged with mine (slingers could get hundreds of kills like that) and cav to charge enemy skirmishers. Only tough oponents were Thracians, bcs they had full stacks of really fast javelimen. I could not catch them with hoplites and they were really deadly with each waley of javelins killing tenths of hoplites

[@AleksanderDrako]

I love how they just flop, nobody even gets much step in as of the arms of the pikeen went on overdrive how quickly they manage to stab whole lines of them. I don't think they even get to second row of the pikes, just their ragdolls!

[@The_Pisces_Poet]

You think they found out the tip is spikey yet?

[@Nervii_Champion]

These German tribesmen never learned from the Roman wars in Greece.

[@DefeatedRoyalist]

I just want my 256 man syntagma of phalangites be able to engage in an accurate “push of pike,” with another successors phalanx… would love for total war to create a game set in the Diadochi period :)

[@imhollywood101]

Rome 2 DEI Mod

[@senseishu937]

@@imhollywood101 That's not the diadochi period though?

[@gniewomirbartoszewski6835]

Is that some kind of mod ?

[@park1699]

@@gniewomirbartoszewski6835 DEI if a total overhaul mod for rome 2. it add population, area of recruitement and so much other stuff that are absent from the base game. plus there is a bunch of submod that you can add to make your experience for personnal playing DEI. 200% recommend the mod

[@DeezUp4Da3zz]

@@park1699gets tedious after a while tho 😅 definitely fun in the beginning tho

[@DA_Doog]

This is what pikemen should be in medieval 2

[@radovanprstojevic1060]

They were ok just they way they were in MTW2

[@DA_Doog]

@@radovanprstojevic1060i mean that is your experience but when I use pikes they switch to swords and they get destroyed by calvery

[@alanjefferson1127]

More of a no defense moment for longaxes, than a great defense moment for pikes

[@TheLoreLodge]

Not once have I had this happen while using pikes in Attila Total War

[@Djigurda_Indiyskiy]

Ты думал мы не заметим, как на заднем фоне по-русски произнесут "Мы берём верх"?

[@SadatClowers]

I like how the standard bearer didn't even pull out a weapon or use the standard bro just charged in and died

[@prodAUROR]

I like how the only guy with a shield was the first to die💀💀

[@HotChronicles]

BRO WHAT lmao those guys got DECIMATED

[@lordcaedus8713]

I’ve never played Attila, but this is why I play Greek and Successor states in Rome 2. Something very satisfying about pulling off a successful phalanx!

[@hihowareyu]

Still made you think how did the romans beat this they also did a frontal charge at some point.

[@fd_god6540]

Твой : "Мы берём вверх" , палит перед англосами , не пались товарищ шпион

[@MrGamerDadChannel]

Да я ничего и не скрываю

[@Heikkiman]

Aaaand this is why no army ever in history did it like that.🤣

[@wolfaldron]

imagine a town's worth of people being wiped out in like 5 seconds

[@M-Rayan]

The last line was like: *OH HELL NAW*

[@AtreidesIV]

Ostrogoth be like

[@hohohoma]

When I was a pikemen I didn’t see these scenes

[@grg1979]

The Suicide Tribe of the Silly Town

[@masonhill5157]

kinda wished spear/pike wall did this in warhammer total war games. even when braced... it barely harms the chargers

[@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025]

Pikemen Are Kinda OP In Defense For This Single Reason

[@narkny]

Неплохо бро, продолжай в том же духе. Кстати тоже их обожаю из-за простоты как юнита и при этом очень мощную возможность перебить всех)

[@sygnomi8312]

How movies think medieval warfare is like:

[@Sugaarpanda_87]

I like the mix of spearman inside pikeman ranks....meanwhile pikeman stay hold the spearman release their proyectiles before entering in shieldwall

[@taylorhines589]

Imagine this being the norm of your game for 2 decades and never even considering to fix it

[@shizaromaharu355]

This is why I overlap my testudo troops and mercenary pikes. Testudo troops kinda blocks projectiles for pikes and pikes gives testudo troops advantage in melee

[@Laim-oneinworld]

Привет, мой американский брат) я тоже обожаю использовать пикинеров, но послушай меня: если ставишь пикинеров, то ставь перед ними тяжелую пехоту с копьями они примут на себя удар дротиков, а потом ты их оставляешь на месте в стене щитов, а пикинеров вперед двигаешь. И получается идеальная тактика, + можно мечников в бой отправить или топорников с флангов

[@jaysmultiverse4504]

They just ran through their death 💀 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@spitherman111]

Alexander the great was really smart to use these

[@Rude_Thunder]

I love French knights or Mamluk heavy cavalry in Total war medieval. Charge is so satisfying

[@SuiSideex]

So one spear can pierce unlimited amount of enemies, interesting.

[@princepsbellum3413]

Never heard of a spit roast? :)

[@olesams]

Well, realistically no. But of we are going realistic, TW battles should be 12 hpurs long, units rout at maybe 10%casualties, arrows and javelins kills 80% less than in game, cav would be more devastating at charge, but far weaker in uneven terrain or outside of a charge. ...would be boring

[@karrots14]

Those soldiers share the same 1 braincell

[@georgeli9295]

Everyone a gangster, until enemy use archers

[@Brett-uq4tz]

Try using the Macedonian phalanx with these guys.

[@ЯрВикинг]

На 1 секунду подумал что это мод и толпа шрэков идёт в атаку

[@DirtyProoduct]

Oh my God that was narly that's how I picture the dothraki all die outside winterfell

[@arioubro5735]

It's really easy to destroy those phalanx pikemen with roman legionaries 😂

[@lindagoad2163]

"Modern total wars are so rubbish. They are so unrealistic with no reloading animations" Old total war: "hehe pikes and spike go brrrrrrrrrrr"

[@MrGamerDadChannel]

Actually made me laugh 😁

[@pravo-slavie]

Никогда не понимал желания лезть на копья

[@MrGamerDadChannel]

Зрелищность

[@pravo-slavie]

@@MrGamerDadChannel 👍

[@NaCk210]

As funny as it is, this is a huge problem total war has. Modern ancient combat theories consider that combat was much more spaced and skirmish-based than what movies may have led us to believe. Charging straight at the enemy probably would have only happened in situations where the enemy was already disorganized and/or retreating, or when a specific opening in the line was revealed. Honestly, most troops should straight up REFUSE to charge a wall of pikes , infantry or cavalry, and should stay at a distance skirmishing in some way. Some games like FOG already simulate this partially with skirmishers not being able to charge troops heavier than themselves.

[@jjhh320]

So dumb looking though. They just have to get slightly poked and then their soul evaporates.

[@ayeejiff9847]

The ancient medieval Meat Grinder

[@Juel92]

No armor, no shield, sharp pike. Not a good combo. Unless you're on the right side of the pikes I guess.

[@mikechujitsu]

What, this isn't factually accurate? Barbarians just didn't jump straight into pikes?

[@M-Rayan]

He has the game in the easiest configuration

[@xiuhcoatl4830]

Nah, they ran in tight lines with spears or axes cutting the spears, covering with shields, then they ran when they passed the spearhead right into the phalanx

[@tl3033]

Good job on CA part to change charge reflection to charge negation

[@hagymascsiposgyros5780]

lol, bought attila recently and this makes me want to play it

[@jguz1984]

Wow, they were quick in becoming skewers!!!!

[@Cody-5501]

That’s more broken than Rome 1 pikes

[@KeASiLeNT]

Explosive tipped pikes apparently

[@suleymanolgunoz4198]

Now this is unnatural selection.

[@WorldGoods]

The last man still playing atilla

[@pouyapch4252]

I play it sometimes too,my pc is old

[@stilihon3525]

Attila is the best part of TW

[@dakiler2028]

Play modded Attila. Settled Huns mod + Slavic bug fix. Best game ever, cuz it eliminates the OP Hun doom stack cheat, plus it stops them from razing every fkin region

[@lesnoyelf228]

​@@stilihon3525Attila and Shogun 2 are the best games in the series.

[@kube410]

​@@dakiler2028 isnt that kinda what huns did irl...

[@deni140492deni]

They implemented the Rome 1 hoplites that instakill elefants into atilla hahahah.

[@MoisesAguirre-uv4oy]

Almost like you should try hitting the sides

[@Blue-Hawk-Legend]

I've played total war plenty of times. I've ne er seen them run into pikes like that and be completely slaughtered

[@basty1man]

Everyone throws their javelins, equips axes and charges in perfect sync and then just run at the pikes and explode into blood. It's honestly a joke what CA did to the TW franchise after Medieval 2.

[@KrowbarSukz]

What the fuck was the ai even thinking what battle difficulty is this 😭😭😭

[@palmtree1905]

Rome 2 pike are so beautiful especially if you surround the enemy and pull a battle of bastards moment